--- web/trunk/www.linuxsampler.org/news.xml 2011/01/23 13:27:49 2159 +++ web/trunk/www.linuxsampler.org/news.xml 2016/07/06 17:03:03 2930 @@ -1,5 +1,132 @@ + + Web Forum and + Bug Tracker + are back online: As you might have noticed, our + Web Forum as well as our + Bug Tracker were partly + unavailable for quite a while. It was possible to read them, but especially + registration of new user accounts were disabled (i.e. due to numerous + spam bot attacks we suffered in the past). Those issues have been + resolved and so both sites are back available and should now work entirely + as expected. + + + There is some progress regarding Gigedit's integrated + NKSP + real-time instrument script editor. Check out the + News Article ... + + + LinuxSampler 2.0.0 had been released after six years of development! + Check the + release notes + for a detailed review of what's new with LinuxSampler and friends. + + + + The Mac installer was broken on latest OS X 10.10 Yosemite. This had been + fixed today. Get the latest + snapshot for Mac + with Yosemite support now. + + + + A new documentation site has been launched: + http://doc.linuxsampler.org - + This separate page dedicated to manuals, tutorials and other kind of + articles for the LinuxSampler project, is using a new solution to write + and maintain such articles with a minimum of effort. Be invited to help us + writing documentation + for LinuxSampler and friends! As one of the first topics, this site is now + hosting an introduction to the new + NKSP Real-Time Instrument Script Language. + The long-term plan is to move all documentation of this project from our www + server to that new site. + + + + For the Mac users out there: We finally have a convenient installer for the + OS X version of LinuxSampler. This is already integrated in our automatic + build system. So from now on all + daily snapshot builds for Mac + are automatically built with an installer. By default the installer will + install all components (LinuxSampler stand-alone application, VST and + Audio Unit plugin version of LinuxSampler, QSampler, Fantasia, GigEdit and + command line tools. At step "Installation Type" you can however also + override the default installation and select which components to install. + + + + gigedit finally included with OS X snapshots! + Due to the variety of third party library dependencies it took a while, but + finally "gigedit", our graphical instrument editor for Gigasampler / + GigaStudio files, is now included with the automatic binary snapshots builds + for Mac OS X. The automatic snapshot installers are automatically compiled + by one of our servers each time a developer commits something new to our + Subversion (development) server. You can use gigedit on Mac OS X as + stand-alone instrument editor as well as in live-mode while running + LinuxSampler. In the latter case your changes with gigedit get immediately + audible while playing the instrument on the keyboard at the same time. + + + + Added SFZ implementation status page. + We are currently in the works to implement support for the SFZ format, + which is a powerful and open sample library format, already adopted by + many commercial samplers. Check our new SFZ status page to see which + aspects of the format are already supported by LinuxSampler, and which + ones are yet to be implemented. + + + + Download the latest OS X snapshot of the sampler! + Following our ongoing sympathy for automatic snapshots, we finally provide + automatic builds also for Apple OS X! As soon as some developer commits + something new to our Subversion server, a new binary snapshot for OS X will + automatically be available for download from our webserver within minutes. + The snapshot tbz2 archive file contains universal binaries + (PPC 32 bit, Intel 32 & 64 bit) of the stand-alone version of the + sampler, VST and AU plugin version, and the graphical frontend applications + QSampler and Fantasia. Only our graphical instrument editor gigedit is not + yet part of the snapshots, it might follow at a later point. Please read + the README file in the tbz2 archive file for instructions how to install + everything on your Mac. + + + + From now on, our source code is managed by a Subversion server. We + converted our existing CVS repository for the + new Subversion server, so + the complete history from the beginning of this project is also + available in this new Subversion repository. Our + old CVS server, along with its web frontend + is still available, however is now in read only mode, so no changes can be + commited to CVS anymore. On the downloads page you can find + instructions how + to download ("checkout") source code from our Subversion server. + + + + After a huge down time of almost one month, we decided to move to new, more + reliable servers. Thanks to the University of Heilbronn which kindly hosted + our servers for 8 years. We started to move the most important services to + a commercial server host, which will be financed by your donations. Sorry + for this long absence and thank you for your support! + + + + Download the latest Windows snapshot of the sampler! + Since we have to confess that we are a bit lazy about putting out official + releases, and since the latest official release of the sampler for Windows + is quite old, we decided to establish automatic builts of the sampler and + all other software components for Windows. As soon as some developer + commits something new to the CVS server for any of the project's software + components, a new snapshot binary for Windows will automatically built and + be available for download within few minutes. Sorry for neglecting you + Windows users out there for so long! + In case you are working a lot on Native Instruments Kontakt instrument